L.A. Online Film Critics Society Announces Its First Nominations

The Los Angeles Online Film Critics Society (LAOFCS) — a brand new association consisting of some of L.A.’s diverse online film voices, including ScreenPicks’ own Kit Bowen — kicked off its inaugural year with an impressive list of nominations.

Here’s the official press release:

Fox Searchlight’s The Shape of Water tops the nominations list with 11 nominations, including Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay, while Lady Bird earns nine nominations and Dunkirk earns eight. Jordan Peele’s massive hit, Get Out, scores nominations for Best Male Director and Best First Feature.

Studio films such as Wonder Woman, War for the Planet of the Apes, and Blade Runner 2049 are also among the nominations scoring five nominations each.

A few smaller released films have found their place on the nominations list including Neon’s Colossal, Trademark Films & Break Thru Films’ Loving Vincent, and the Sundance Institute’s Columbus.

Saoirse Ronan and Timothée Chalamet are each nominated for Best Actress and Actor as well as Best Performance by an Actor or Actress Under the Age of 23.

LAOFCS is also pleased to announce that it is the first ever critics group to feature two Best Director categories — one for female and one for male. “There has been so much conversation about the power of female filmmakers and we wanted to embrace it,” said co-founder Scott Mantz of Access Hollywood. “There is a Best Actor and Best Actress category as well as Best Supporting Actor and Actress, so why not have a Best Male Director and Best Female Director category?” asked co-founder Scott Menzel of WeLiveEntertainment.com.

In total, the Los Angeles Online Film Critics Society members have nominated over 40 different films ranging from smaller art-house releases to major blockbusters. The Awards Ceremony will be held on January 3rd, 2018, at which time the winners will be announced.

A detailed list of the nominations can be found below:

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The Big Sick
Colossal
Call Me By Your Name
Get Out
I, Tonya
Lady Bird
Molly’s Game
The Post
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

About LAOFCS: Krisily Kennedy, Scott Mantz, and Scott Menzel founded the Los Angeles Online Film Critics Society in late 2016. The primary goal of the society was to create a critics group that appropriately reflects a varied history and perspective of people from various races and gender. The intention was to create a critics group that was as diverse as the city in which it is based.

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A longtime movie lover, since her mother let her stay up late to watch old movies like To Kill a Mockingbird, Kit Bowen has turned her passion into a long and varied career in the entertainment business. A native Floridian, she landed in Southern California as a teenager, and eventually earned a B.A. in English at UCLA. For the past 15 years, Kit has been an online entertainment journalist, reporter and film critic, writing for Hollywood.com, Fandango, Movies.com, ExtraTV.com and ScreenPicks.com. Her crowning jewel, however, is her movie how-to guide, TheMovieKit.com, which brings to her loyal readers movie reviews, interviews, trailers, and more. Her reviews are also featured on Rotten Tomatoes. Just think of Kit as a mini-IMdb.